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The best-known and richest monastery of Cyprus, Kykkos Monastery was founded in 1100 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It possesses one of three surviving icons ascribed to Saint Luke. It is covered in silver gilt, enclosed in a shrine of tortoise…

The best-known and richest monastery of Cyprus, Kykkos Monastery was founded in 1100 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It possesses one of three surviving icons ascribed to Saint Luke. It is covered in silver gilt, enclosed in a shrine of tortoise…

The huge Crucifix represents Christ almost in natural size. Christ is lying dead with his head inclined to the left. On the four corners of the Cross are depicted the eagle, the man, the lion and the ox with the scull of Adam under the feet of…

''Charadrion'' is called the stone bed of Saint Neophytos to denote the hard surface with no mattress. On the north wall two small niches served as a place to put his ink-pot and feather. This space was painted with colored circles and Crosses. His…

The two Stylites Daniel and Symeon are represented side by side with their palms opened. Each of them stands on the top of his pillar and is protected by a simple fer forgé surrounding the top. On their right is depicted an unidentified monk. This…

Decorative Zatrikion, is a renaissance motive in wall-painting. This motive is found on the north aisle of the Bema in the Katholikon.

This dedication inscription commemorates the erection of an edifice by the Abbot Iacovos Miriantheus (1898-1933). Its actual position is unknown. The stone is found in the monastery yard. At the back of the stone a column is laid, whose original…

This stone inscription commemorates the date of construction of an edifice by Abbot Iacovos Miriantheus. It is placed on the wall between the archades of the dining room of the monastery but does not belong to that edifice.

This entrance to Saint John the Baptist's cell (1190A.D), the door, the wall and the pathway, was build after the 1953 earthquake. It leads to Saint John's hermitage, on the fourth level of the Enkleistra next to the second Enkleistra dwelling place…

Στο βίντεο υπάρχουν τοιχογραφίες από την Εγκλείστρα του Αγίου Νεοφύτου στην Πάφο, οι οποιές χρονολογούνται από τον 12 -16ο αιώνα μ.Χ